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Gräf & Stift
Austrian vehicle manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN.
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It was founded by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift.[1]
The company was a well-known manufacturer of luxury automobiles, including the Double Phaeton that carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, when they were assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914. The car is on display at the Austrian Military Museum.[1]
By the 1930s Gräf & Stift had begun making trucks and buses, and it ceased car manufacturing in 1938. The company merged with Österreichische Automobil Fabriks-AG (ÖAF) in 1971, becoming ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG, and later the same year was taken over by MAN AG. It continued in business as a subsidiary of MAN, and the Gräf & Stift name remained in use as a MAN brand for the Austrian market and for trolleybuses until 2001, when ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG was renamed MAN Sonderfahrzeuge AG.[2] It was located in Vienna, and the production facilities continue in use there, but no longer using the Gräf & Stift name.